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Chinese demand
CCGC also reports that
Chinese demand for carbon
fibre in 2014 amounted to
10,600 MT, including 49%
for the sports & leisure sector

(most of this production was
for export), 46% for industrial
applications (including 9% for
building reinforcements and
8% for cable cores), and 5% for
aerospace. So, many contrasts,

Fig. 2: China's actual output from 2007 to 2014 (Source: Zhang Dingjin/China
Composites Group Corporation Ltd./September 2015)

with an unusual prevalence of
sports & leisure and a budding aerospace sector that is
still very "metallic": there is a
critical lack of high-modulus
fibres in the Chinese aerospace
market (Editor's note).

sensitive from the strategic or
military standpoint.

The future

It may be a cliché, but China
does remain the world's workshop, in spite of rising wage
costs. This is clearly the case for
The need for imports
the sports & leisure segment
While China does export some of the carbon fibre market,
carbon fibre, its production is
China's domestic consumption
mostly consumed locally. It is
is on the rise, however, and the
quite insufficient to meet the
application of forthcoming endemand (in terms of quantity
vironmental regulations should
and average quality), even if
reinforce that. To develop its
Chinese producers are graduown production of carbon
ally winning more market share fibres, the country will have
each year: in 2014, 3,200 MT
to invest, even as its producproduced, for 10,600 MT of
ers struggle to generate cash
demand.
flow and it is weighed down
by economic uncertainties.
Japan is China's main carbon
It will also have to train more
fibre supplier, providing 49%.
qualified personnel. Not an
It is followed by Korea (14%), easy task, but China has already
Taiwan (13%) and Turkey
dealt with many challenges in
(7.4%) (figure 5). Korea has
recent years. n
now surpassed Taiwan in exReference
[1] Excerpt from JEC's strategy
ports to China, thanks to prostudy - Carbon Fibres: history,
duction sites held by Hyosung
players
and forecast to 2020 by
and Toray Advanced Materials,
Franck Glowacz
a Korean subsidiary of the Japanese company Toray. That said,
More information:
China is not importing what it
www.ccgc.com.cn/en/
wants in terms of fibre variety,
www.jeccomposites.com
since some grades are highly

Fig. 3: China's theoretical production capacity in 2014 (Source: Zhang Dingjin/
China Composites Group Corporation Ltd./September 2015)

Fig. 4: Comparison of global and Chinese carbon fibre demand by application
in 2014 (Source: Zhang Dingjin/China Composites Group Corporation Ltd./
September 2015)

Fig. 5: Chinese carbon fibre imports per country in 2014 (Source: Zhang Dingjin/China Composites Group Corporation Ltd./September 2015)

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016

Cover
Edito
Point of view: Thailand smiles at composites
Contents
COMPANY & BUSINESS
Agenda of Events
APPLICATIONS
Cycle
Multisectorial
Music
MARKET
Trend
Carbon
SPECIAL JEC AMERICAS 2016
Conferences
Awards
Oil & Gas
Redevelopment
Laboratory
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Self healing
Fibre placement
Microwave
TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATIONS
LFT
Intermediate products
Multimaterial
Manufacturing
Process
Index
In the world
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Cover
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 2
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Edito
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Point of view: Thailand smiles at composites
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Contents
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - COMPANY & BUSINESS
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Agenda of Events
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Ad1
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Ad2
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Cycle
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 13
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Multisectorial
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 15
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Music
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 17
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Trend
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 20
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 21
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Carbon
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 23
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 24
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 25
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Conferences
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 27
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 28
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Awards
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 30
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 31
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 32
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 33
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Oil & Gas
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 35
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Redevelopment
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 37
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Laboratory
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 39
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 40
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Self healing
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 42
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 43
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Fibre placement
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 45
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 46
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Microwave
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 48
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 49
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 50
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - LFT
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 52
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Intermediate products
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 54
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Multimaterial
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 56
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 57
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 58
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Manufacturing
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 60
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Process
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 62
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 63
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 64
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - Index
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - In the world
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 67
JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #104 - April/May 2016 - 68
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